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Message from Lee Odden of Top Rank Online Marketing to practitioners at the PRSA 2009 International Conference: steal keywords from the marketing team and use them in your press releases, news rooms, blogs and other content properties you develop.

While marketing has been using principles of search engine optimization, predominantly to build traffic for sales, optimizing news content is the same process, but for a different outcome. Odden’s packed presentation featured 10 ways that public relations professionals can begin optimizing content TODAY.

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The convergence of what constitutes sources of influence online has put industries like advertising, marketing and public relations in a situation that calls for innovation that keeps pace with discovery, consumption and sharing of content.

As time and resources in newsrooms diminish, journalists, analysts and industry influentials increasingly use technology such as search engines to find subject matter experts, research companies, locate past media coverage and track topical trends. In fact, a recent survey on journalists’ use of search by TopRank reports that 91 percent of those journalists, reporters and editors surveyed use search engines to do their jobs.

Traditionally, search engine optimization efforts have been managed by corporate marketing departments in support of direct revenue generation. However, with the many opportunities to create value in the form of increased online brand visibility, reputation management and Internet-based media coverage, public relations departments are at risk of a missed opportunity to provide value unless they can master search in a meaningful way.

Know the SEO Tactics that Have the Biggest Impact

To leverage search for online media relations and building brand influence, it’s important that public relations professionals understand the foundation of SEO tactics and their business benefits. This involves understanding which SEO and public relations tactics have the most impact, how to choose the best keywords, on-page SEO and link building best practices, as well as measuring the value of SEO to public relations efforts. It also means knowing when PPC is a better fit than SEO, how to combine SEO and social media promotions and the finer points of selling the benefits of SEO to public relations decision makers.

This is a preview of SEO Tips for Public Relations: Top 10 Tactics to Improve Content Search Performance. Read the full post

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